Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Science"
- SI History Bibliography
The Return of the Ahayu:da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: December 1993
- Creator: Merrill, William L
- Creator: Merrill, William L
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007322, Watkins, C. Malcolm, C. Malcolm Watkins Papers, 1935-1979 and undated
- Date: 1935 1935-1979 1935-1979 and undated
- Creator: Watkins, C. Malcolm
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Family Memories at Thanksgiving
- Date: November 23, 2010
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: What better time to capture family memories and stories than when you and your relatives gather to celebrate Thanksgiving? For the past several years, several organizations have encouraged families to listen to one another and record family history over the Thanksgiving weekend. StoryCorps, for example, has launched The National Day of Listening. So put down that pumpkin pie
- Blog Post
American History in an Earthenware Teacup
- Date: January 14, 2016
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.
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“Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971
- Date: August 21, 2018
- Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of
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Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites
- Date: August 2, 2011
- Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021
- Date: July 8, 2021
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
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Suppose We Decide to Dispose
- Date: October 28, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Interior of Office of Printing and Photographic Service's cold storage vault, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder September 1983, Negative Number 2004-10338."][/caption] To be sure, the Smithsonian has a lot of photographs. Millions of them in hundreds of
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Web and Social Media Preservation: Capturing Today’s Websites for Future Archival Research
- Date: August 12, 2014
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives has captured two years of Smithsonian websites using the web tool Archive-It. See how we predict future research.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-349, National Museum of American History (U.S.) National Philatelic Collection, Curatorial Records, 1965-1987
- Date: 1965 1965-1987
- Creator: National Museum of American History. National Philatelic Collection
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Preservation
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack
- Date: July 26, 2016
- Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.